An illustrated inquiry into one of the most fascinating creatures on Earth answers many questions about the elephant, including how they evolved, how they communicate, how they have been treated by humans, and much more.

Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking is a kitchen classic. Hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible to which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly they're made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and deliciou...(展开全部)

Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking is a kitchen classic. Hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible to which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly they're made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and deliciou...(展开全部)

丁韪良（William Alexander Parsons Martin，1827－1916），美国北长老会派至中国的传教士，在中国生活了62年（1850—1916，其间有四年时间不在中国），曾任北京同文馆和京师大学堂的总教习。他精通中国语言和文学，对晚清中国社会有微细的观察和独到的见解，是清末在华外国学者中首屈一指的“中国通”，同时也是一位充满争议的历史人物。著有《中国觉醒》和《花甲忆记》等。

丁韪良（William Alexander Parsons Martin，1827－1916），美国北长老会派至中国的传教士，在中国生活了62年（1850—1916，其间有四年时间不在中国），曾任北京同文馆和京师大学堂的总教习。他精通中国语言和文学，对晚清中国社会有微细的观察和独到的见解，是清末在华外国学者中首屈一指的“中国通”，同时也是一位充满争议的历史人物。著有《中国觉醒》和《花甲忆记》等。

The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities--whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide--is no fairy tale. In The Elephant in the Room, Eviatar Zerubavel sheds new light on the social and political underpinnings of sile...(展开全部)

The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities--whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide--is no fairy tale. In The Elephant in the Room, Eviatar Zerubavel sheds new light on the social and political underpinnings of sile...(展开全部)

The name "Allium" is said to come from the Greek word to avoid because of its offensive smell. The genus Allium includes more than 800 species of which only a few have been cultivated as foods. Many of the other members of this genus are popular with gardeners as easy to maintain perennials, although the smell of some members of the genus can be off-putting. The smell is a con...(展开全部)

The name "Allium" is said to come from the Greek word to avoid because of its offensive smell. The genus Allium includes more than 800 species of which only a few have been cultivated as foods. Many of the other members of this genus are popular with gardeners as easy to maintain perennials, although the smell of some members of the genus can be off-putting. The smell is a con...(展开全部)

What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein's General Theory Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always spectacular and, today, precisely predicable, eclipses have allowed us to know when the first Olympic games were played and, long before the first space probe, that the Moon was covered by dust. Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emb...(展开全部)